Text as Material: Remake Reuse Recycle with Christodoulos Makris

How do you manipulate the superabundance of contemporary language into poetry? 

Recognising the poetic potential of non-literary sources, and how text fragments can combine and flow into each other, is key. 

In this interactive workshop you will exercise your faculties of selecting, sampling and reassembling already existing material, and will be guided by the poet Christodoulos Makris to use texts gleaned from their everyday surroundings to make new poetry.

About the facilitator

Christodoulos Makris is "one of Ireland's leading contemporary explorers of experimental poetics" (The RTÉ Poetry Programme). He has published three books of poetry, most recently this is no longer entertainment (Manchester: Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2019) as well as several pamphlets, artists' books and other poetry objects with presses in Ireland, the UK and North America. The digital publication sorry that you were not moved in collaboration with Kimberly Campanello was released in February 2022 (Dublin: Fallow Media). 

Recent major commissions and awards include: Digital Poet in Residence, StAnza Festival, Scotland (2017); Project Commission, Irish Museum of Modern Art (2017); Writer in Residence, Maynooth University (2018-19); European Poetry Festival (2019); Literature Project Award, The Arts Council of Ireland (2020-21); and the inaugural Joseph M Hassett Creativity Bursary (Poetry), University College Dublin (2021-22). He is the poetry editor at gorse journal and associated imprint Gorse Editions, and has directed, programmed or produced numerous projects and events, independently or in association with festivals and other institutions.